URI

Date

2005

Abstract

This paper aims at studying new ways of users integration in “emotional Design” or “Kansei engineering systems”. The main goal of this study was the integration of the trend factor in design, with an early emotional evaluation of “Trend cards” produced by the designers. After a definition of the study context, we explain the experimental protocol which was followed. It was based on a questionnaire method involving 56 French subjects and applied in the field of shoes design. The data analysis was mainly proceed by the way of a Principal Component Analysis. The expected results were centred on the emotional evaluation of the Trendcards in order to establish further design rules for a Kansei Engineering system. In conclusion, we can recognize important semantic effects and influences which can be used as information for the implementation of the design elements data base.

This article discusses momentary limitations of the Kansei Engineering methods. There are for example the focus on the evaluation of colour and form factors, as well as the highly time consuming creation of the questionnaires. ...

Experience has become the new paradigm of product design. Designers seek to anticipate emotions or associations a user might have when in contact with their design. The factors that influence human product perception are ...

This paper aims at studying the role of sketching in car styling. Prior studies have shown that sketches play a major role in the early phases of design. A definition of the intermediate representations and mental ...

Computational tools should efficiently support, and even enhance, designers' creativity. As a ground for such developments, design cognition studies aim at describing designers' mental strategies within the design process. ...

This study aims to explore how designers mentally categorise design information during the early sketching performed in the generative phase. An action research approach is particularly appropriate for identifying the ...